A Quotes
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“All creatures grow life force during physical existence, but only those with spiritual wisdom can significantly expand it. Humans are such creatures; Through acts of compassion, they can grow the life force exponentially.”
Source: God's Intervention: A Second Chance for Humankind
“All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own forest without being devoured. To understand the predator is to become a mature animal who is not vulnerable out of naivete, inexperience, or foolishness.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.”
“All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.”
“All creatures whether large or small are precious because God created them.”
Source: A Snowy Day
“All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of Allah. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others are unaware. However it may be, Allah's manifestation is confirmed.”
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. -Friedrich Nietzsche”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.”
“All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.”
“All Cretans are liars.”
“All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
“All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.”
Source: A Short History of Financial Euphoria
“All crises, once averted, become jokes.”
“All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: behind all those messages we've allowed ourselves to be intimidated by are just individuals with unmet needs appealing to us to contribute to their well-being.”
Source: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
“All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.”
“All criticism is a form of autobiography”
“All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.”
“All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.”
“All critics should be assassinated.”
“All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.”
“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.”
Source: Brave New World
“All crowns come from "once upon a pain".”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
“All cultural artifacts can be parsed out into three categories: uncommon things, common things, and mediocre things. Mediocre things do not last very long, common things last a lifetime, and uncommon things last indefinitely.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.”
“All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.”
Source: The Road To Mecca
“All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.”
“All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer.”
Source: Blue Pastures
“All culture must have arisen from cult.”
“All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.”
“All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.”
“All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.”
“All cultures have been mingled forever.”
“All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.”
Source: Jackson Pollock
“All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.”
“All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!”
“All cultures learn from each other. The problem is that if the Beatles tell me that they learned everything they know from Blind Willie, I want to know why Blind Willie is still running an elevator in Jackson, Mississippi.”
“All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.”
“All currency is neurotic currency.”
Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.”
Source: Fair Game
“All da ladies love Leo!!”
“All dahlias are beautiful in their own way! I love them because they have the most perfect symmetry and come in a rainbow of color options.”
Source: Bold & Beautiful Paper Flowers: More Than 50 Easy Paper Blooms and Gorgeous Arrangements You Can Make at Home
“All Dalinar did was nod and ask the occasional question, but somehow he felt like he was accomplishing something. At the end, he entered a breezy tent near the city gates, where he met with a group of wounded soldiers. Each had survived when his entire platoon had fallen. Heroes, but not the conventional type. It took being a soldier to understand the heroism of simply being willing to continue after all your friends had died.”
Source: Oathbringer
“All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.”
Source: Damage: a novel
“All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project.”